[1] "Aus dem Leben König Karls von Rumänien. Aufzeichnungen eines Augenzeugen." Stuttgart: Verlag der J. G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung.
[2] This Prince always wrote his name Karl Anton, as a double name: hence the retention here.
[3] Lord Macaulay cites the Earl of Chatham in the following words as the exception to this invariable rule, thus: "He was an almost solitary instance of a man of real genius, and of brave, lofty, and commanding spirit, without simplicity of character."—(William Pitt, Earl of Chatham.) Macaulay's "Critical and Historical Essays."
[4] The Roumanians alone lost 2659 killed and wounded on that day.
[5] An oligarchy of Greek families in Turkey, from which a large proportion of high stations in the Turkish administration were filled.
[6] Hospodar: Old Slavonic term for Lord or Master applied to the reigning Princes in Wallachia and Moldavia.
[7] The so-called Lieutenance Princière was a kind of governorship or regency which was formed after Prince Kusa's fall, and consisted of the chiefs of all the recognised political parties.
[8] Translation: "I swear to protect the laws of Roumania, to maintain her rights and the integrity of her soil."
[9] All titles and privileges of the Roumanian nobility were abolished by law with the exception of the title of Bey-Sadé (Prince or "Fürst") granted to the sons of former Hospodars.
[10] The present German Chancellor [1899].